We’ve averaged 1,500 downloads a day of Psi for years. It truly amazes me. We’re almost at 2.4 MILLION downloads, can you believe it?

I whipped up this chart from Sourceforge data:

This came out of a question in the Psi chat room this morning. A user wanted to retrieve a password which was saved in the Psi config file. We don’t use any strong crypto here on the basis that if someone has access to your user profile, you have bigger problems than your IM accounts. There was a Perl script around which did the trick.  I couldn’t wrap my head around that, so pulled in a buddy (Joel Bennett) who did the porting to PowerShell.  Here it is:

We do like the long release cycles, it seems.    Kev the project lead has written it up on his blog.  You can find download links on the Psi Download page.

I had an email in my mailbox this morning which I’d not seen before:

The domain psi-im.org (psi) is about to exceed their bandwidth limit

Now bear in mind this limit is somewhat artificial as I host the website myself and the quota was just a random number I pulled out of my hat.  But it was a pretty big number.  A year ago, we would usually run through about 30-35 GB of bandwidth in a month.  (Bear in mind, this does not include actual software downloads—those are hosted on Sourceforge.  I’ll get to that.)

We used over one-hundred-and-nineteen gigabytes of bandwidth in the month of July, 2008.  And that’s just for the website itself!  We do not host a single tarball, zip archive or Mac disk image on the site.

For the benefit of those on the Psi groupchat this morning (available at psi@conference.psi-im.org), I broke the stats down a bit, and I was asked to share them here as well.

Traffic by sub-domain:

• blog.psi-im.org 5.91MB / planet.psi-im.org 1.68GB (both point to the same place)
• flyspray.psi-im.org 8.75GB (our bug tracker)
• forum.psi-im.org 34.21GB (not too surprising, given our strong community)
• psi-im.org 74.97GB

Daily average number of unique visitors:

July 2008: 4102

Top Countries (by number of hits):

(Top-level domains .net and .com excluded.)

1. Russia
2. Poland
3. Czech Republic
4. Germany
5. Brazil
6. Ukraine
7. Slovakia
8. Italy
9. Australia
10. France
11. Bulgaria
12. Netherlands
13. United Kingdom

And last but not least…

Download Statistics

Unfortunately, I can’t get very specific on these as Sourceforge’s stats engine is down for upgrades right now (has been for a few weeks…grr).  What I can say is we generally average around 1,500 downloads of Psi—every single day.  That was as of a month ago or so but is very typical.

There is one number that I can get specific about.

Total Downloads

Now this number is actually low because it doesn’t include the release candidates and it may not include downloads in the last few weeks because of the stats overhaul.  (SF claims they are keeping track.).  But anyway, here goes.

Total downloads of Psi official releases (going all the way back to 0.86, released in 2002), only including the Windows zip archive and executable installer, the source tarball, and the Mac disk image.  Not including any of our unofficial contributed builds or the Linux distribution packages……drum roll please…

1,997,919

Wow.  All I can say is thanks to the loyal users of Psi!

Source Code Statistics

And by request, source code stats.

No, I didn’t spray it.

A loyal Psi user asked for a button he could use on his site to link to the Psi download page. I had a copy of the new Psi icon that Jason Kim whipped up, so I put something together. If you want to put something like this on your site, the HTML code is below the image.

<a href="http://psi-im.org/download"
  title="Click here to download Psi!">
<img src="http://psi-im.org/media/download-psi.png"/></a>

The server upon which the Psi website (and this blog) sits will be down for maintenance at times tonight between 8pm and 3am EDT (UTC-4). Sorry for the inconvenience.

## Update @ 0921 ##

Just wanted to let you all know that my partner-admin is a jerk. He went ahead and did the maintenance _this_ morning. “Because he was up”, he said.

So anyway…nevermind! Apparently the maintenance went well. Server might even be faster now.

Quick note to let you all know that I have fixed a little itty bitty bug (the files weren’t there).

I’m happy to (re)announce that Planet Psi is now online. Planet Psi is a developer’s blog, not a general blog about Jabber, nor a community site like the Psi Forums.

Members of the blog aggregate are:

• Hal Rottenberg (feed)
• Justin Karneges (feed)
• Kevin Smith (feed)
• Michail Pishchagin (feed)
• Remko Tronçon (feed)

You should note that the above feeds are actually unique to Planet Psi and do not necessarily appear on Planet Jabber. (The article you are now reading was intentionally cross-posted.) So check us out over there if you would like a different perspective.

Nevermind. Inside joke.

Anyway, check out Lucas N’s updated stats for clients that connect to his Jabber server:

Clients :

* Psi: 28% (28%)
* Gaim: 25% (25%)
* iChatAgent: 13% (18%)
* Kopete: 7% (7%)
* Gajim: 5% (3%)
* Pandion: 4% (2%)
* libgaim: 4% (3%)
* Miranda: 2% (1%)
* neos: 2% (1%)
* BitlBee: 1% (0%)
* Exodus: 1% (1%)
* Trillian: 1% (2%)
* Unknown: 0% (none)
* JBother: 0% (none)
* JAJC: 0% (0%)

Oh yeah, #1!

As formally announced on our forums, Psi 0.10 has been released after a long development cycle. Significant changes include tabbed chat windows, transparent chat & roster windows, and several other nifty GUI features like Growl support in OSX and an auto-resizing input box.

Next up to the plate is a port to QT4 for 0.11, which is already well on the way. Aside from the obvious benefits to QT/KDE developers, a big bonus is we’ll finally be able to compile Psi “for free” on Windows as Trolltech open-sourced the toolkit for that platform in the latter part of last year.

Then for 0.12 and forward we’ll be back to adding new features like:

* “Jingle” Google Talk-compatible VOIP
* MUC (Multi-user Chat) support
* Full XMPP compliance
* Ad-Hoc Commands

This year should see much improvement for us.

Download for all platforms at http://psi-im.org/download

As some of you know, we’ve had a lot of changes to the Psi website lately. I finally moved the whole thing to a new server (psi-im.org) a bit over a week ago. I decided not to resurrect the old forum, based on Invision Power Board. A very old version, I might say. Instead, I went ahead with what was in the website roadmap anyway which was to migrate to Unclassified Newsboard.

The migration went pretty well, but it was a lot of work. The database migration script needed some hand holding, then I had a lot of configuration and theming to do. I swapped out the new Psi logo for the UNB logo and it didn’t look good at all, so I put a few hours into sliding things around. The end result is quite pretty, but most of the credit does go to Yves, the UNB author. My changes from his default theme were not drastic–yet.

So please do check it out; and maybe stay for a while. The new Psi Forum! Oh, here’s a poll where you can let me know what you think.

Here are some statistics you might find interesting. This set is just since the forum change:

• Currently, 5 users are online: Fritzy, halr9000, Kev, matthias_gor, TommyV6 and 4 guests
• Today, 28 users were online: a2k, Ephraim, Fritzy, halr9000, IceRAM, Kev, LonelyPixel, machekku, Marsup, matthias_gor, michalj, minipouss, MRAY, MrPingouin, nikkou, NotDeadMeat, oops_max, Pedersen, quelcom, raj_bhaskar, random, schalotten, spike, SunCat, tezem, ToF, TommyV6, weirdonietzsche and 226 guests
• Most users in a day is 44, plus 356 guests. That was yesterday.

This set is all-time, or at least since we had been using IPB:

• Number of threads: 2788
• Number of posts: 20,925
• Registered users: 3,451

Quoth the Kev on the mailing list

Ok people, we have test3 available featuring assorted bugfixes an
improvements from test2. I think we’ve addressed all known issues
now, so if no-one finds more we’ll go gold in a week or so.

Downloads available at Sourceforge

We had the database go all screwy last night. I’ve decided to rebuild everything on our new webhosting provider instead of remaining on the old troublesome server. I’m about 75% done rebuilding the site.

Update @ 2:30PM

The site is operational now at our new webhosting provider (me). The new website address is http://psi-im.org. Forums are not up yet but I’m working on it. Thanks for your patience.

I’ll just paste Remko’s announcementto the forums here:

We just put Psi-0.10-test2 online. Here are the download links

* Source
* Mac OS X
* Windows

One serious bug was fixed, and 2 build issues were handled. The tabs issues will be handled in the next test release. This is the complete changelog:

Fri Aug 26 20:38:26 CEST 2005  Michail Pishchagin

  * Fixed AdvancedWidget crash issue

Fri Aug 26 13:53:32 CEST 2005  Michail Pishchagin

  * Corrected path to idleiu.dll in makewin.bat

Thu Aug 25 09:01:55 CEST 2005  Remko Troncon 
  * Removed unportable casts.

I don’t know what is going on at our host. The whole thing, including our hosts own website, is down. No ETA yet.